Issue #46 is here. Order your copy now and join us as we hike the Appalachian Trail, belly dance at Sharm El Sheikh, drink tea in Kazakhstan and dig in an Italian vineyard. We are pleased and proud to offer poetry by Amy Holman, fiction by Myfanway Collins, Irene Keliher, Jeff Fearnside and many others. --

NEXT UP… The Potomac Review will launch a new feature, “The Maybe Dialogue-Blog.” A writer has agreed that we will discuss her story and why it was a Maybe and not an accept. Click on the blog link on the left side of this page. Associate Editor Zachary Benavidez and I will offer our comments and our writer, Mary Akers, will offer her responses and revision ideas. Watch for it later this week.

We hope to do the “Maybe Dialogue” on at least a monthly basis. It will be a window into our editorial process and also a fascinating discussion of revision. Remember the editor can only say what isn’t working in a work of fiction. Only the writer can repair it.

Washington DC metropolitan area writers –DON’T FORGET – The F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference is October 17th. You can register online. Julia Alvarez is our Honoree and we offer workshops in short story, novel, screenwriting, poetry, nonfiction and children’s writing.

The poetry contest opens this Thursday. Enter early; enter often.

Also, look for our ad on for the Poetry Contest in The Writer’s Chronicle. Well, that buried the lead: get your poems ready for our annual Poetry contest. This time with more money, more prizes, and a few guest appearances by Leonard Nimoy!

If you have any questions, email us at PotomacReviewEditor@montgomerycollege.edu.

Sincerely,

Julie Wakeman-Linn & the PR Team.